> Omega Nutrition, has been selling organic flax oil by the litre for the > last twenty years. ... > This doesn't address all the requirements of those who need > the more exotic omega-3s
Indeed, flax oil does NOT contain the medically relevant long-chain EPA, only the precursor ALA. EPA is not "exotic" at all, it's simply the substance that is effective against inflammation, cancer etc. while ALA as such is pretty useless. Healthy well-nourished individuals can theoretically convert ALA into EPA at about 10% conversion rate, but the target group is neither healthy nor well-nourished so their conversion rate is in the 0.2% range! In other words, they'd have to drink flax oil by the litre (as you sold it..) per day to reach the therapeutic dose of EPA -- but then they'd exceed the maximum amount of fat ingestion per day. In other words, flax oil is a fraudulent rip-off. Good fish oil costs a fraction of it for the same EPA dose (even at optimum conversion) and is actually effective. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
